The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
The Biden Administration has been running into roadblocks from federal judges and state governors who reject his sweeping program of compulsory vaccination. Is there a case that can be made for requiring federal government employees to be vaccinated?
Every time I look at a newspaper, I feel like the soldier in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale of the tinder box.
The thistledown’s flying, though the winds are all still,
On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill
The question for today is how to view Kyle Rittenhouse.
In one of the series’ last episodes, we get some send-ups of the spy genre of the 1960s.
Question: What is the principal difference between President Biden and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the movie Idiocracy? I await your responses…..
This exercise does not provide an opportunity to “surrender,” “keep score,” or “reset.”
I take it as a given that the strength of local and regional cultures can be measured in part by their distinctive cuisines.
Every human society has had its share of offensive or annoying people: busybodies and bores, poseurs and bullies, cheapskates and check-grabbers, hypocrites and egomaniacs. You might even be able to define some societies by the offensive characters they tend to produce or by the qualities they find most offensive.
Virginia! Oh Virginia! How far thou have fallen and are desecrated!
That is how I felt as I watched Southerners celebrating the election results in Virginia. Has the state that produced Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson gone so far under the spell of multiculturalism that Virginians can fall for politicians who attack Southern traditions and Southern monuments.